The Southern Crescent project by the Center for a Better South is an effort to draw attention to underserved areas of the American South to help coordinate better delivery of services to the area’s people.

This Web site provides weekly looks at communities in the Crescent to help people better understand challenges in the region.  You can help by donating money to bolster our efforts or, if you live in the Crescent, submitting pictures of people and places throughout the area.

The Center for a Better South is a pragmatic, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to developing progressive ideas, policies and information for thinking leaders who want to make a difference in the American South.

The tax-exempt organization, founded in 2005, has worked on practical solutions to budget and environmental issues, as well as developing policy alternatives for dealing with the aftereffects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

Now the Center is turning its focus to the long underserved Crescent region to focus attention on it to encourage federal and state policymakers, nonprofits, academics and foundations to develop new ways to coordinate aid to lift up the millions of people who live in the Crescent from Virginia through the Carolinas to the Delta.  In coming months, the Center expects to document the region through photographs as well as fund pertinent research and meetings to generate action to improve the quality of life and incomes in the Crescent.